Brian Staples
Brian Staples is President of Trade Facilitation Services (TFS: www.tradefacilitation.ca) an Ottawa-based consulting group, and has been providing a wide range of multinational clients with effective market access strategies and solutions for over 30 years. TFS services include technical trade fundamentals with a particular focus on rules of origin. In addition to resolving trade problems for private sector clients, he has also worked on a wide range of trade, customs and origin related technical assistance and capacity building development projects around the world.
Mr. Staples is a longstanding member of the Canadian Chamber of Commerce and the International Chamber of Commerce Commission on Customs and Trade Facilitation. He is also the President of the Origin Experts Group (OEG: www.originexpertsgroup.com), a software development company that provides public and private sector clients with leading-edge origin determination assistance tools.
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Non-preferential origin and sustainability: the real rules of origin challenge
Preferential rules of origin are one of the most complex areas of customs. This type of origin is used to check whether a product is eligible for a reduced tariff under a trade agreement such as the CPTPP, UMSCA, the TCA and many more.But for many companies, where the big...
Sustainability requirements: How to operate in the new reality?
'Deep origin' is a phrase coined by Brain Staples. It is a description of the sustainability-focused regulatory environment now being increasingly faced by customs and traders. It goes beyond customs when it comes to implementing sanctions or other prohibitions on importation of endangered goods, goods manufactured by forced labour, or...
Thoughts on non-preferential & Deep Origin
The fundamental premise of these notes is that the absence of any harmonization for rules of non-preferential rules of origin is increasingly and very rapidly creating additional discriminatory opportunities to expand and extend the scope and impact of a wide range of trade policies and trade restrictions. A brief analysis...
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Sustainability requirements: How to operate in the new reality?
'Deep origin' is a phrase coined by Brain Staples. It is a description of the sustainability-focused regulatory environment now being increasingly faced by customs and traders. It goes beyond customs when it comes to implementing sanctions or other prohibitions on importation of endangered goods, goods manufactured by forced labour, or...
Thoughts on non-preferential & Deep Origin
The fundamental premise of these notes is that the absence of any harmonization for rules of non-preferential rules of origin is increasingly and very rapidly creating additional discriminatory opportunities to expand and extend the scope and impact of a wide range of trade policies and trade restrictions. A brief analysis...
Non-preferential origin and sustainability: the real rules of origin challenge
Preferential rules of origin are one of the most complex areas of customs. This type of origin is used to check whether a product is eligible for a reduced tariff under a trade agreement such as the CPTPP, UMSCA, the TCA and many more.But for many companies, where the big...